Cool looking Chef's knives?

[Anonymous No.18927560]

I wanted to invest into a good chefs knife but I'm bored by how generic even the expensive options look. Are there no knives with a cool design that are also good quality and usable?

[Anonymous No.18927574]

Kiwi

[Anonymous No.18927628]

>>18927560
Get the kitty knife

[Anonymous No.18927631]

>>18927560
https://www.eatingtools.com/9-chef-knives
Problem is that looking good and being good at the same time ends up costing a lot. Even the cheaper options here are relatively expensive, and very expensive when it comes to knives as a hobby.

[Anonymous No.18927653]

>>18927560
you a faggot

[Anonymous No.18927660]

>>18927560
>cool looking chef knive
>no finger guard
>back edge of blade slopes downward towards the blade so your finger could slide down and then slice itself right across the blade

[Anonymous No.18927663]

>>18927560
buy off aliexpress. The quality may suprise you

[Anonymous No.18927671]

>>18927660
How are you holding a knife?

[Anonymous No.18927783]

>>18927660
bro if you need a finger guard to use a knife without going to the hospital, you should never go in a kitchen again and make kids cuisines for the rest of it

[Anonymous No.18927791]

>>18927783
>t. home chefs

[Anonymous No.18927876]

>>18927663
enjoy your chinese toy knife coated with cancer

[Anonymous No.18927892]

>>18927560
Shigefusa kitaeji. Good luck snagging one. Ultimate function with a great form.

[Anonymous No.18928044]

if you get a designer knife style like in your pic to be unique you'll only be expressing that your kind of a tool to anyone that cooks, just forewarning. try a rectangle or samurai knife like others posted if you wanna deviate from the regular western style.
>>18927783
bolsters feel nice in the hand I never even knew it was a safety thing, sharpening is a litter harder with stones but if it has a fat ass like pic related you might as well use a brick wall anyway

[Anonymous No.18928066]

>>18928044
>if you get a designer knife style like in your pic to be unique you'll only be expressing that your kind of a tool to anyone that cooks, just forewarning

Why have this attitude? It's 2023. Why not try to have some fun?

[Anonymous No.18928073]

>>18927671
I grip the blade like you guys told me.

[Anonymous No.18928548]

[Anonymous No.18928564]

I find Damascus steel knives tacky as fuck

[Anonymous No.18928573]

>>18928564
What about the hammered steel look?

[Anonymous No.18928576]

>>18928564
I find your ma's pus pus smelly and unpleasant

[Anonymous No.18928578]

>>18928573
I find that kinda cool if it looks natural

[Anonymous No.18928581]

>>18927560
Never pull out a "cool looking" knife to a gunfight when you have a sixgun by your side.

[Anonymous No.18928588]

ceramic blades look pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOnMVnstfE

[Anonymous No.18928589]

[Anonymous No.18928605]

[Anonymous No.18928608]

[Anonymous No.18928609]

>>18928564
I think it can look sick as fuck.

[Anonymous No.18928617]

Who has the webm of the dude using a fantasy knife to chop and onion?

[Anonymous No.18928629]

>>18928609
Copper looks cool but makes the knife function terribly.

[Anonymous No.18928643]

>>18928629
You got a 1/4" it looks there between the blade edge and the copper bands. So it shouldn't be a problem cutting.
The real issue would be keeping it from oxidizing.

[Anonymous No.18928897]

>>18928643
Copper salts taste extremely bad.

[Anonymous No.18928915]

>>18928564
A lot do, I think well made Japanese pattern welded steel can be quite cool. It's a lot more subtle and lower contrast than the american style where you want on layer to be black and the other a grayish color.

See >>18927892 for what I mean.

[Anonymous No.18928938]

Miyabi knives are pretty sexy. Check this bad boy out.

[Anonymous No.18928962]

Are you people weird? You buy a knife for looks?

[Anonymous No.18928974]

Its like you fucks are right off of a Disney cruise.

[Anonymous No.18929006]

>>18928962
Why wouldn't you want your stuff to look good?
Minimalism is for autists and monks. Everyone else should learn to enjoy form along side function.
Color in life is what makes us human.

[Anonymous No.18929044]

as a guy who works in a professional kitchen, knifefags come off as absolute clowns. the only knife a home cook needs is a serrated knife and youre good for a life time. what are you going to do wit a knife that's folded over hundred times and forged in the deepest depths of mount fuckamihardoshi? cut a tomato every other day?

[Anonymous No.18929090]

>>18929044
Bait and/or retard.

[Anonymous No.18929112]

>caring about looks
This thread reeks of gay.

[Anonymous No.18929130]

>>18928589
That's kinda cool lol

[Anonymous No.18929170]

>>18929130
It wpuld be fun the first 30 minutes to hour of use, and then the novelty would run dry. I'd just end up using it as a throwing axe for shits.

[Anonymous No.18929275]

>>18929090
>everything that rustles my jimmies is bait

[Anonymous No.18929292]

>>18929275
Nono. It's just so incredibly stupid it has to be bait. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.18929293]

>>18927560
Function > form every day of the week.

[Anonymous No.18929314]

>>18929292
Explain why it's bait? It's the truth. Home cooks do not need an expensive fancy foreign knife.

[Anonymous No.18929633]

>>18929314
serrated knives are terrible for chopping

[Anonymous No.18929662]

Best functional knife I first bought myself was an Victorinox 10" chefs knife in Rosewood. Fibrox will be my next purchase in 8" and they come in many different colors. The 3.25" spear-point paring knives are awesome too. Perfect for using as a deck knife.

[Anonymous No.18929710]

>>18929314
You said you only need a serrated knife and you're good for a lifetime. So you're essentially saying that it will never get dull, which is ridiculous. When it does get dull you can't sharpen it easily.

Serrated knives don't make nice cuts when slicing. They suck for onions. No paring knife means you have to do everything with a large knife that doesn't have a pointed tip. Just think about it for a second.

I make sushi at home. You really think a serrated knife is going to do a good job at that?

[Anonymous No.18929715]

>>18929314
I forgot about chopping herbs up also. Your claim is obscene.

[Anonymous No.18929764]

Arr japanese knife rook the same.
I like my Zwillings though.

[Anonymous No.18929784]

>>18929314
You need:
>Chef's knife or gyutō for 80% of kitchen work
>Paring knife for peeling and for finer control
>Serrated bread knife for bread and other things better suited to cutting than a straight edge
>Cleaver for hacking through bones and other very hard foods
>Boning knife for fileting fish

Anything else is either very superfluous or extremely specialized that you probably shouldn't buy it if you're only making one or two specific dishes with it.

[Anonymous No.18929845]

>>18929112
>not caring about looks
You're autistic or pretending to be some stoic utilitarian.
Everyone likes things that look nice, and wants their stuff to look nice too. Visual aesthetics are very important to people.

[Anonymous No.18929855]

>>18929090
Holy shit guys. He works in a PROFESSIONAL kitchen!

[Anonymous No.18929858]

>>18929006
Its not about looks, its about function first. I do realize that really nice copper pans and skillets look great hanging in a kitchen but its bullshit if not being used. I have an aunt with a ton of those hanging all over and I'd like to get them when she dies, hopefully that wont be for a long time though she's like 90 years old.

[Anonymous No.18929868]

>>18929845
>very important to people.
Those aren't people, they're fags.

[Anonymous No.18929871]

>>18929868
very poorfag cope. sad

[Anonymous No.18929884]

>>18929855
From his absurd and truly goofy post I bet his professional kitchen time is mcdonalds.

[Anonymous No.18929900]

>>18929858
I've used the grottiest, shittiest knives to cook with, and very nice ones.
Function is basically identical between 90% of knives of any given blade type (chef, cleaver, santoku, etc). An hour on a whetstone turns any knife into a scalpel, and occasional touch ups with a honing rod keep the edge even on soft mystery meat sheet metal knives for months.

Form is the most important aspect. Its was separates them all apart. And, if you pay more, you can get both easily. Good form and whatever you imagine is going to give you noticeably more function.

[Anonymous No.18930011]

>>18928564
I find "damascus steel" tacky as fuck. IF I could have a set of REAL Damascus, I would be elated every time I had an excuse to use one.

[Anonymous No.18930035]

>>18929845
First good picture in this shitshow of a thread.

[Anonymous No.18930227]

>>18929314
>Home cooks do not need an expensive fancy foreign knife.
>>>
> Anonymous 02/12/23(Sun)17:43:09 No.18929633▶
>>>18929314 #
>serrated knives are terrible for chopping
No one needs anything, we do stuff because we like to

[Anonymous No.18930257]

>>18929900
platonist knife bastard got a double double

[Anonymous No.18930277]

>>18928962
>>18929112
So you guys drive smart cars or what?

[Anonymous No.18931043]

poasting some of my knives.
1/3
Konosuke YS Sanjo 240 khii handle

[Anonymous No.18931047]

>>18931043
2/3
Konosuke Fukushima 210mm SLD mirror finish

[Anonymous No.18931054]

>>18931047
3/3
couldn't be assed to photograph the last one
Majime limited edition

[Anonymous No.18931091]

>>18931043
>>18931047
>>18931054
How much do knives like these cost?

[Anonymous No.18931257]

Who would have thought that this shit derails into a Jap knives circle jerk. Anon here is a pro tip, get any high carbon chef knive for a decent price, let's say 30-60 bucks and be done. Wash it with water, hone it regularly and it works like a dream.

[Anonymous No.18931439]

>>18931091
roughly, 350-500 dollars depending on size, where you live, etc.

For the knives, I paid
Konosuke Sanjo YS - $450 (I paid around $660 but I live long from most sellers, so shipping and tax gets added on top)
Konosuke Fukushima SLD - not available anywhere anymore, but around $350-400
Majime Limited Edition - $499

[Anonymous No.18931443]

>>18927560

[Anonymous No.18932456]

>>18931443
Full-circle to cavemen, nice. Except
>can't slice straight through anything where your hand is blocking
>have to stare at it before picking it up, lest you zone out slightly and grab it from the blade

[Anonymous No.18932475]

>>18927660
>your finger could slide down and then slice itself right across the blade

that knife has a big, fat ricasso, idiot. hence why it doesn't need a guard and is perfectly safe in the hand of a non-retarded person. kys.

[Anonymous No.18932480]

>>18928564
>I find Damascus steel knives tacky as fuck

same. it's a fucking meme at this point, and getting a Damascus steel knife is now extremely cringe.

[Anonymous No.18932483]

>>18928609
that looks awful. why is your knife so rusty? eww.

[Anonymous No.18932492]

>>18931054
This one I like a lot.

[Anonymous No.18932497]

>>18932483
Dunno why.
This one turned out to be gay.

[Anonymous No.18932501]

>>18931047
That's a pretty knife. I don't care for aesthetics when it comes to a tool, but that's a cool knife.

[Anonymous No.18932540]

>>18929845
When you go to the hardware store, do you pick your hammer, sawblades, or whatever else based on whatever is the coolest looking? I know you literally have never used Tools in your life, don't cook and only buy knives to project wealth on the 4 times a year someone comes into your apartment, but if you think for one second you will realize how retarded it is to shop for this kind of thing based on appearance.

[Anonymous No.18932656]

fibrox all you need

[Anonymous No.18933165]

>>18932540
Yeah, most people buy shit based on how it looks relative to everything else in the store.
What do you know about metallurgy truly to really compare two different brands of hammer? What about handle construction do you know to compare those?
Maybe you are a subject matter expert about hammers. Probably not. You're getting whatever brand you once heard was good. Or, whatever you think looks the best in appearance out of the selection.

[Anonymous No.18933172]

>>18932540
If two tools do the same job, pick the prettier one

[Anonymous No.18933232]

Get chink cleaver

[Anonymous No.18933511]

>>18932540
they don't have two hundred hammers in my hardware store. if they did I could find one that is both cool looking and very practical

[Anonymous No.18933759]

>>18927560
I need a few good knives too but I don't know what brands are legit and what brands are a scam.

I've been using a cheap set someone gave me that couldn't hold and edge well. And recently the handle on the chefs knife fucking broke on me so I think it's time to bite the bullet and replace em.

[Anonymous No.18933785]

>>18929044
I'm way too fucking lazy to properly sharpen a serrated knife.

[Anonymous No.18933839]

>>18933785
Most normaloids never, ever sharpen their knives. Having a whetstone or even using a honing steel is the domain strictly of very devoted hobbyists or in our case, obsessive autismos. Most people buy a knife for like $15, use it until it's dull, then buy another $15 knife. They don't get rid of the old ones though, they keep them all in the drawer. If you've ever been to a regular person's house you know this is true. Assuming they're not a pure doordash lifestyler, they probably have about a dozen dull knives in random sizes and styles.

[Anonymous No.18933845]

>>18933172
>>18933511
I could see you little autistic queers showing up to your first day on the job site with pic related on your belt.

[Anonymous No.18933862]

>>18933845
>job site
who said anything about taking our own personal homeware and tools to work?

[Anonymous No.18933869]

>>18933845
looks like a prop from a netflix adaption, pretty weak looking too.
We’d use something gay looking like this.

[Anonymous No.18934251]

>>18933869
>normal hammer with a logo on it
Not at all similar to the tacticool shit in OP's pic or like >>18929900 for instance

[Anonymous No.18934279]

>>18933845
that's not cool or practical. I think you're projecting. you like that faggy hammer